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From the Ground Up: How Land Trusts and Conservancies are Providing Solutions to Climate Change

This Policy Focus Report presents a dozen case studies that demonstrate how land trusts, conservancies, and other nongovernmental civic organizations have meaningfully addressed climate change over the past several decades. These organizations are working to protect land, biodiversity, and historic resources in more than 100 countries on ...
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Resource Type ILCN/Lincoln Institute Publication
Topic Green Infrastructure Large Landscape Conservation and Restoration Privately Protected Areas Stewardship and Land Management

ILCN/ELCN Webinar: The Natura 2000 Protected Area Network- History and Future Outlook for Integrating Conservation on Private Lands

Natura 2000, a network of protected areas covering 18% of land and 10% of marine waters for the most valuable and threatened species and habitats across all 28 countries of the European Union, is the largest coordinated network of protected areas in the world. This webinar explores the creation of the network; its evolving approach to int...
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Resource Type Webinars
Topic Large Landscape Conservation and Restoration / Law and Policy / Organization and Governance / Privately Protected Areas

ILCN/ ELCN Webinar: Land Conservation, Health, and Well-being

This webinar focuses on the role of open space, parks, and protected areas as a critical part of public health infrastructure, offering multiple benefits for physical and mental health. Speakers from the United States and Spain, two of the countries hardest hit by the pandemic, share their perspectives on how land conservation contributes...
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Resource Type Webinars
Topic Law and Policy / Other / Privately Protected Areas

The role of privately protected areas in achieving biodiversity representation within a national protected area network

Society for Conservation Biology


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Resource Type Research Paper
Topic Large Landscape Conservation and Restoration / Privately Protected Areas

China Country Profile

Environmental NGOs and conservationists in China are developing important new models for biodiversity and nature conservation through systematic conservation planning tools. This China Country Profile, authored by Shenmin Liu of the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy in consultation with Jin Tong, Science Director at the China program of Th...
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Resource Type Country Profile
Topic Large Landscape Conservation and Restoration / Organization and Governance / Privately Protected Areas

2020 ALPINE Summer Institute Final Participant Essays

The ALPINE Summer Institute program, now in its fourth year, is designed to enable undergraduate students, graduate students and early-career professionals to learn more about the theory and practice of large land conservation.  The participants came from a variety of backgrounds and levels of experience in land conservation; all of ...
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Resource Type ILCN/Lincoln Institute Publication
Topic Large Landscape Conservation and Restoration / Law and Policy / Organization and Governance / Stewardship and Land Management

Two Decades of Land Acquisition for Conservation

The year 2020 marks the 20th anniversary of the IUCN NL Land Acquisition Fund, which provides small grants to local NGOs to acquire threatened patches of wilderness in order to protect the biodiversity they harness. Since its foundation in 2001, the Land Acquisition Fund has enabled and facilitated the acquisition of over 40,000 hectares ...
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Resource Type Other
Topic Green Infrastructure / Large Landscape Conservation and Restoration / Privately Protected Areas / Stewardship and Land Management

Conserving Biodiversity on South Africa's Privately Owned Grasslands

South Africa’s Biodiversity Stewardship Initiative and Protected Areas Act are programs designed to help protect threatened species and provide other conservation benefits. Private grasslands are an important priority for conservation. This project uses in-person surveys to assess the experiences of grassland farmers who have enrolled l...
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ILCN July 2020 Newsletter


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Resource Type ILCN Newsletter
Topic Large Landscape Conservation and Restoration / Law and Policy / Organization and Governance / Privately Protected Areas / Stewardship and Land Management

Protecting endangered species in the USA requires both public and private land conservation

Abstract: Crucial to the successful conservation of endangered species is the overlap of their ranges with protected areas. We analyzed protected areas in the continental USA to assess the extent to which they covered the ranges of endangered tetrapods. We show that in 80% of ecoregions, protected areas offer equal (25%) or worse (55%) pr...
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Resource Type Research Paper
Topic Large Landscape Conservation and Restoration / Privately Protected Areas

New Report on Tax Incentives for Private Land Conservation in Spain

As a result of their work on the pilot action Tax Incentives for Stewardship Agreements, Fundación Biodiversidad has produced a report on the possibilities for tax incentives in Spain, as a useful tool to promote the development of nature conservation initiatives on private land. 
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Resource Type Partner Publication
Topic Finance